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A rare Great War and Iraq 1919-20 operations group of four awarded to Able Seaman C. F. Walker, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (J. 35173 C. F. Walker, Ord., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J. 35173 C. F. Walker, A.B., R.N.); Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Iraq 1919-1920 (J. 35173 C. Walker A.B., R.N.), contact marks, edge bruising and polished, thus fine, although the last a little better (4) £1600-1800 Footnote One of 122 R.N. and R.M. personnel to receive the “Iraq 1919-1920” clasp, Walker having been drafted from H.M.S. Espiegle for service in the river craft Tug 1 in August-September 1920. Charles Frederick Walker was born in Sheffield in April 1897 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in January 1915. Having completed his training in Ganges and elsewhere, he joined the cruiser H.M.S. Arethusa in June 1915, and was still similarly employed when she hit a mine off Felixstowe on 11 February 1916 - drifting ashore, she broke her back before an effective tow could be put in place. Having then served briefly in the Christopher, Walker removed to another destroyer, the Norman, in which capacity he remained employed until the end of 1917. His final wartime appointment was in the battle cruiser Princess Royal in the North Sea from January 1918, although as stated, he went on to qualify for his rare Naval General Service Medal while detached from the Espiegle in the Iraq operations of 1920. Walker was discharged ashore in April 1927; sold with copied service record.